Good point! — TribecaMom on Seen & Heard: Award-Winning Chili

Location, location, location...Granted if you are living there you might not be schlepping to the 1 or ACE every morning at 7:30a but that walk along Canal is really AWFUL. Pile on all of the traffic and horn blowing when Canal is backed up onto West and you have crummy building. The metal facade that doesn't line up is really telling too about the interiors. Although I'm not annoyed at the exterior I'd rather have a park/fountain/community garden. — JT on New Building Report Card: 290 West

Thalassa's bar is also a great spot once the divorced is finalized. — Jim Smithers on Seen & Heard: Award-Winning Chili

Thalassa is a beautiful space for a wedding or rehearsal. — TribecaMom on Seen & Heard: Award-Winning Chili

Form follows disfunction. — PeterD on New Building Report Card: 290 West

That crane is a big one and it's going to get bigger! I've stopped to talk to the workers and the crane is lifting 5 very large generators and all of the attendant equipment to the roof of 60 Hudson. Once the first part of the lift is over, 50 more feet of boom will be attached. That will be a sight! — Andrea on Seen & Heard: Color Me Mine’s New Location

Oh yeah! I remember now. Fredrick did buy his unit at 290 West in the last season of MDL NY. Bldg was under construction so he and his hubby had to wear hard hats. Maybe we'll see the interiors of the bldg once he moves in in the upcoming season. — TribecaMom on New Building Report Card: 290 West

doubtful that many people will actually "live" there. it's all part of the grand international ponzi scheme. — j on New Building Report Card: 290 West

Give me a break. A couple of days is going to kill you? I am sure it will be very organized and end early every night. If it even goes a week. But don't worry the millionaires loft and apartment owners will be at a community board meeting to make sure it doesn't happen. I live in street festivals all my life and it was just a part of us. Spoiled brats in Tribeca. Our blocks are quiet every night. So some fun during April isn't going to hurt anyone. But I forget you are superior and cant deal with a change dealing with common folk — Native New Yorker on The Tribeca Family Festival Is Going to Be an Entire Week

That's the risk you take when you buy a unit with lotline windows. They can be covered at any point, in spite of the assurances offered by the developer and real estate broker. — Makes you go "hmmm..." on New Building Report Card: 290 West

We had our rehearsal dinner at the TriBeCa Grill. They have a private room that holds quite a large amount of people, and have AV options if that's something you need. — HH on Seen & Heard: Award-Winning Chili

The original building sandwiched in between the new development is actually really handsome. Unfortunately, they had lot line windows on both sides, which have been completely blocked. Those lofts, which used to be really nice, have been crushed in value. — Muscle Milk on New Building Report Card: 290 West

Nooooo! You can't cut the Canada Goose patches off! How will I know who the dingbats are then?!!! I love the Canada Goose couples. — Jim Smithers on Seen & Heard: Award-Winning Chili

He actually bought at 290 West. — Erik Torkells on New Building Report Card: 290 West

Where on vestry is this mystery pooper? — Sean on Seen & Heard: Color Me Mine’s New Location

They still have the same broker that's on MDL, Frederick — lowphat on New Building Report Card: 290 West

Its a 5 minute walk to the 1 train... — Sean on New Building Report Card: 290 West

I've noticed blatantly misleading renderings in several of the VE Equities projects. The glaring one you pointed out, where the rending has only 5 stories that reach up to the top of the red building next door but the actual building has 6 stories. This leads to each floor in the actual building looking much more cramped with lower ceilings than what they sold in the renderings. They also had 11 n moore which originally was shown in renderings with huge single panel windows, when in reality the windows were more like the ones here in this building. Once they started putting the windows in at 11 n moore, they switched out the original single pane windowed renderings with new ones. Very shady stuff to pull on people paying 5-10 million. — lowphat on New Building Report Card: 290 West

One of the original listing agents was one of the brokers on MDL-NY. I think he was replaced at some poknt, though. — Makes you go "hmmm..." on New Building Report Card: 290 West

I still cannot fathom that anyone would WANT to live at that traffic-choked corner! Uber? Taxi? Good luck GETTING there with the traffic mess! — Bruce on New Building Report Card: 290 West

On its own, it is not terribly different from the original rendering, so based on that metric alone, it gets a C. However, as you note and show with a photo, in the context of the neighborhood and the block specifically, the original brick building looks like an outlier. And that seems very wrong. Whenever I drive up the WSHWY, I'm always struck by the horribleness of Trumpland. At least these buildings are not as tall and generic as those, but this stretch certainly doesn't represent the general character of the neighborhood, just as the wall of Trump buildings obscures the pretty prewar buildings on th UWS. Bummer. — NorthernTribeca on New Building Report Card: 290 West

Maybe this building will be featured in the new season of Million Dollar Listing NY? — TribecaMom on New Building Report Card: 290 West

I call this architectural period Container Store. — Frank Lloyd Wrong on New Building Report Card: 290 West

Thank you for this survey ---...it's awesome ! — Alice Hartman on Where to Order Chinese Food in Tribeca

Notice that they bulked up the mullions, which is a value engineering trick (thinner mullions = more expensive). It also looks like they may have added another floor in the base mass (rendering shows 5 vs 6 in reality). This added floor further cramps the mullions. The visible mechanicals are really bad too. Developer crap. That being said, 11 N Moore (same developer) is slightly more promising although, the different color / material on the facade is unnecessary and detracts from the clean design. @Getch I might not like how it looks, but this property is condo and is nearly sold out at astronomical prices. — Muscle Milk on New Building Report Card: 290 West